A birds eye view of Egypt — long walks by the Nile, learning pharaoh's names, peering at pyramids and snorkelling in the Red Sea. In Egypt, Arthur Eddington’s “arrow of time” flies in both directions. Within an hour of arriving in Cairo, we negotiate the mayhem of the city’s traffic, and time travel back to Giza where. Every nautical mile along this linear oasis has been nothing short of a revelation.